Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself may drop in for a while, depending upon his schedule while senior leaders, including president Rajnath Singh, UP in-charge Amit Shah and RSS functionaries like Suresh Soni and Ramlal, would attend the session.

NEW DELHI: By clinching a simple majority of its own in the Lok Sabha BJP may have surprised the nation, but the party is not leaving any stone unturned in its stated quest for a "Congress-free" India. On Thursday, top leaders will "debrief" all the 145 BJP candidates who bit the dust in the recent General Elections at a meeting at the party headquarters at 11 Ashok Road, New Delhi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself may drop in for a while, depending upon his schedule while senior leaders, including president Rajnath Singh, UP in-charge Amit Shah and RSS functionaries like Suresh Soni and Ramlal, would attend the session.

BJP had contested 427 seats and won 282 — the 145 candidates who lost their seats include Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, HRD Minister Smriti Irani and party spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain.

"The aim is to talk to the candidates who failed to win their seats and analyse the reasons for their defeat. The party cannot sit on its laurels and be complacent. Our goal of a Congress-free India has still not been achieved. We have established our government at the Centre and now we have to win in the states too," a senior BJP leader said.

He was referring to the coming assembly polls in Haryana and Maharashtra, and later in the year in J&K and Jharkhand. BJP is now aiming to win all the assembly polls and wipe out Congress from the states. The party wanted to get specific inputs from the candidates — what were the factors that resulted in their defeat?

"It could be infighting in the state unit. It could be the caste or the religion factor. Maybe party did not choose the right man to represent the constituency. Modi ji wants to dwell into these issues so that we can make amends," another party leader told ET.

Shah has already started working on a strategy to strengthen BJP in seven of the 80 seats that it lost in the state. As reported in ET earlier, Shah had appointed coordinators for each of the seven constituencies with an eye on the assembly polls in the state, which are due in 2017. Shah had also told the UP state unit to gear up for the panchayat polls next year.

BJP leaders said RSS was keen that the party make inroads into states where they had little presence. "The focus will be on Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Odisha," the BJP leader said. Modi also attended the dinner hosted by Rajnath Singh for the newly appointed ministers and senior party functionaries.

At the dinner, termed 'Sneh-milan', they discussed organisational matters and ways and means for a better coordination between the party and the government. The dinner was earlier planned for June 25, on the eve of the government completing one month in office. But it was postponed because of derailment of the Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express on the day.